Kathleen Beausoleil, Renew, 2018, ink on paper, 12 x 16”

SELECT EAST
New York-based gallery Garvey|Simon is hosting its eighth annual SELECT EAST 2023 exhibition. Chosen by gallery director Elizabeth K. Garvey, the exhibition features emerging and mid-career artists through its innovative Gallery Review Program. SELECT 2023 will have East and West iterations this year, creating opportunities for a wider demographic of artists. SELECT WEST will be held at Garvey|Simon’s Bay Area gallery. This year’s SELECT EAST artists are Kathleen Beausoleil, Martin Benson, Sarah Brenneman, Jaynie Crimmins, Beth Dary, Leslie Fry, Julie Peppito, Christine Romanell and Lynnette Therese Sauer. The show runs until January 24, 2024.

Tony Speirs, Portrait of X (Gonzalez, school shooting survivor), mixed media, 60 x 48”

de Young Open
Building on the success of the inaugural de Young Open in 2020, the second triennial of this juried community art exhibition celebrates the voices and visions of Bay Area artists. This year, 7,766 artists each submitted an artwork, with submissions juried by eight curators, alongside esteemed Bay Area artists Clare Rojas, Sunny Smith, Stephanie Syjuco and Xiaoze Xie. Artworks are hung “salon style” and are grouped by theme: political and social issues, the urban environment, the human figure, nature, abstraction and surreal imagery. The exhibition runs through January 7, 2024. A selection of work from the show will go into the de Young Museum’s permanent collection. 

Judy Chicago, Birth Trinity, from the Birth Project, 1983, needlepoint on canvas. Needlework by Susan Bloomenstein, Elizabeth Colten, Karen Fogel, Helene Hirmes, Bernice Levitt, Linda Rothenberg and Miriam Vogelman. Courtesy The Gusford Collection. ©️ Judy Chicago/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Donald Woodman/ARS, New York.

Judy Chicago show
On view through January 14, 2024, at the New Exhibitions Museum in New York, Judy Chicago: Herstory spans the artist’s six decade career, encompassing the full breadth of her contributions across painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, textiles, photography, stained glass, needlework and printmaking. Expanding the boundaries of a traditional museum survey, the exhibition will place 60 year’s worth of Chicago’s work in dialogue with other women artists across several centuries, taking over four floors of the museum.

Michael Carson, Chandra, 2023, oil, 18 x 23”

Michael Carson at Bonner David Galleries
World-renowned contemporary artist Michael Carson is known for his dynamic and expressive figurative paintings on panel, with nondescript, abstract backgrounds that highlight the emotions and gestures of his subjects. For the first time in nearly 20 years, Carson is revisiting the canvas in a brand new collection that will be unveiled at Bonner David Galleries in Scottsdale, Arizona, from December 1 to 30. An opening reception is being held on Friday, December 1, from 6 to 9 in the evening. —